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Before the accident, it was the largest hydroelectric power station in Russia and the sixth-largest in the world by average power generation. On 2 July 2009, RusHydro , the power station's operator, announced the station's all-time highest electricity output over 24 hours.
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. ... Russia 10 1974–1976 Columbus radiotherapy accident, 88 injuries [34] [38] Columbus, Ohio, United States
It was the worst mining accident in England, with a death toll of 361. September 6, 1869: Avondale Mine Disaster, Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania. A massive fire at the Avondale Colliery caused the death of 110 workers. It was the greatest mine disaster to that point in American history.
Russia has suffered more than 2,000 casualties in a single day, Ukraine’s military has claimed, in what would mark one of the heaviest toll of losses inflicted on Vladimir Putin’s forces at ...
8 January - A Russian Air Force aircraft accidentally released an FAB-250 warhead over Rubizhne, Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast. No casualties or damage were reported, and the warhead failed to detonate. [157] 12 March - A Russian Air Force IL-76 transport aircraft carrying 15 people on board caught fire and crashed during takeoff in Ivanovo ...
On 30 May 2023, less than a week before the dam breach, the Russian government decreed that in occupied Ukraine, "Until 1 January 2028, technical investigations shall not be carried out into accidents at hazardous production facilities and accidents at hydraulic structures that occurred as a result of military operations, sabotage and acts of ...
The death toll from Russia's largest air attack on Ukraine rose to 39 on Saturday as rescuers continued to clear debris and rubble from the bombardment, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Russia ...
The exact death toll of the explosion is not known. The first Western reporting of the accident via the Italian Continentale News Agency in December 1960 said that 100 people were killed, [6] while The Guardian reported in 1965, citing information from spy Oleg Penkovsky who had passed information to the West, that as many as 300 had died. [7]